Officials Call Special Session ; Lawmakers in July Will Try to Tackle Tort Reform in Wyoming.

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RIVERTON -- State legislative leaders have called the 57th Wyoming Legislature into a special session in July to deal with what some are calling a medical malpractice insurance crisis in Wyoming.

For more than two years, lawmakers have been mulling the impacts of increasing medical malpractice insurance rates on the state's physicians. One of those is the belief that Wyoming doctors will relocate to states where their rates will be more affordable. That would cut access to medical care by Wyoming residents, especially in rural areas.

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Officials Call Special Session ; Lawmakers in July Will Try to Tackle Tort Reform in Wyoming.

While lawmakers have taken only limited action to date -- and none in the 2004 budget session -- House Speaker Fred Parady, R- Rock Springs, said the situation in the state has intensified since the session ended in early March.

One reason is that Ohio Insurance Co., a major carrier of medical malpractice insurance in W...

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